Excerpt: "'As the summit in Panama (April 2015) neared, something had to be
done because the United States face the possibility of being excluded from
the hemisphere all together.'
Professor Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist and
activist. (photo: Va Shiva)
Noam Chomsky Says US Turned to Cuba Due to Increasing Isolation
By teleSUR
21 July 15
The U.S. was on the verge of being completely isolated from its own
'backyard,' Latin America, in the 2015 Summit of the Americas.
Internationally renowned linguist and intellectual Noam Chomsky told Mexican
newspaper La Jornada Monday that because Washington was becoming
increasingly isolated from 'their own backyard,' Latin America, they decided
to normalize relations with Cuba.
Chomsky said the fourth Summit of the Americas of 2012 in Colombia was a
major turning point for the United States, as it saw itself along with
Canada, completely marginalized from all the crucial issues being debated,
including Cuba.
"As the summit in Panama (April 2015) neared, something had to be done
because the United States face the possibility of being excluded from the
hemisphere all together," he said in an exclusive interview with the leftist
Mexican newspaper.
The U.S. political commentator and writer said it "was then that Barack
Obama dramatically preached that the United States policies to take
democracy and human rights to Cuba had not worked."
He added that at that point, President Obama decided new measures and
strategies had to be implemented in the case of Cuba in order for Washington
to achieve its objectives, and therefore decided out of convenience to allow
Cuba "escape, slightly, from international isolation."
So, the change of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba was the result of the
notable changes occurring in Latin America in the last few years, which
isolated Washington more and more from its own "back yard," forcing them to
change their position regarding the island nation, Chomsky said.
La Jornada interviewed Chomsky in the context of the reopening of embassies
between the U.S. and Cuba in each other's capitals and why suddenly after 50
years Washington decided to reestablish diplomatic relations with Havana.
"The reason for U.S. policy change is pretty clear. For over decades in
surveys, the U.S. population has expressed their support for normalization
of relations. However, by norm, public opinion is ignored. What is more
interesting is that greater sectors of the U.S. capital have been in favor
(of the normalization of relations): such as pharmaceuticals, energy and
agro-industrial sectors, among others. Usually, these are the sectors that
in effect make the decisions, but when they are ignored, this only goes to
show that there is an even greater interest in government," he pointed out.
"This greater interest of the government is very clearly defined in official
internal documents that resume it this way: The successful Cuban defiance of
U.S. foreign policy, which emerges from the Monroe Doctrine, cannot be
tolerated," Chomsky said.
He basically called this policy the doctrine of the mafia, "which seeks to
impose that world order and it is understandable, according to what is
frequently explained in those internal official documents, which establishes
that disobedience (to that doctrine) potentially turns into what Kissinger
called 'a virus,' which can spread infection and thus dismantle the whole
control system."
He further explained that in the case of Cuba, that doctrine was based on
isolating and controlling that virus at whatever cost since the beginning of
the Cuban revolution until recently.
"But something changed," he noted, saying with irony that since the "terror
policies of economic strangling had failed, the United States was forced to
resort to other measures to take Cuba to the elevated norms of Honduras,
Guatemala and other countries, traditionally benefited by the American
nobility."
However, major differences remain between both countries, particularly
regarding the U.S. illegal occupation of Guantanmo Bay- U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry said he would not discuss this issue - and the arbitrary
blockade Washington imposed on the Caribbean nation over 50 years ago, which
the Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez demanded Monday it be lifted.
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Noam Chomsky Says US Turned to Cuba Due to Increasing Isolation
By teleSUR
21 July 15
The U.S. was on the verge of being completely isolated from its own
'backyard,' Latin America, in the 2015 Summit of the Americas.
nternationally renowned linguist and intellectual Noam Chomsky told Mexican
newspaper La Jornada Monday that because Washington was becoming
increasingly isolated from 'their own backyard,' Latin America, they decided
to normalize relations with Cuba.
Chomsky said the fourth Summit of the Americas of 2012 in Colombia was a
major turning point for the United States, as it saw itself along with
Canada, completely marginalized from all the crucial issues being debated,
including Cuba.
"As the summit in Panama (April 2015) neared, something had to be done
because the United States face the possibility of being excluded from the
hemisphere all together," he said in an exclusive interview with the leftist
Mexican newspaper.
The U.S. political commentator and writer said it "was then that Barack
Obama dramatically preached that the United States policies to take
democracy and human rights to Cuba had not worked."
He added that at that point, President Obama decided new measures and
strategies had to be implemented in the case of Cuba in order for Washington
to achieve its objectives, and therefore decided out of convenience to allow
Cuba "escape, slightly, from international isolation."
So, the change of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba was the result of the
notable changes occurring in Latin America in the last few years, which
isolated Washington more and more from its own "back yard," forcing them to
change their position regarding the island nation, Chomsky said.
La Jornada interviewed Chomsky in the context of the reopening of embassies
between the U.S. and Cuba in each other's capitals and why suddenly after 50
years Washington decided to reestablish diplomatic relations with Havana.
"The reason for U.S. policy change is pretty clear. For over decades in
surveys, the U.S. population has expressed their support for normalization
of relations. However, by norm, public opinion is ignored. What is more
interesting is that greater sectors of the U.S. capital have been in favor
(of the normalization of relations): such as pharmaceuticals, energy and
agro-industrial sectors, among others. Usually, these are the sectors that
in effect make the decisions, but when they are ignored, this only goes to
show that there is an even greater interest in government," he pointed out.
"This greater interest of the government is very clearly defined in official
internal documents that resume it this way: The successful Cuban defiance of
U.S. foreign policy, which emerges from the Monroe Doctrine, cannot be
tolerated," Chomsky said.
He basically called this policy the doctrine of the mafia, "which seeks to
impose that world order and it is understandable, according to what is
frequently explained in those internal official documents, which establishes
that disobedience (to that doctrine) potentially turns into what Kissinger
called 'a virus,' which can spread infection and thus dismantle the whole
control system."
He further explained that in the case of Cuba, that doctrine was based on
isolating and controlling that virus at whatever cost since the beginning of
the Cuban revolution until recently.
"But something changed," he noted, saying with irony that since the "terror
policies of economic strangling had failed, the United States was forced to
resort to other measures to take Cuba to the elevated norms of Honduras,
Guatemala and other countries, traditionally benefited by the American
nobility."
However, major differences remain between both countries, particularly
regarding the U.S. illegal occupation of Guantanmo Bay- U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry said he would not discuss this issue - and the arbitrary
blockade Washington imposed on the Caribbean nation over 50 years ago, which
the Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez demanded Monday it be lifted.
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